[HPforGrownups] Re: Directly from the manufacturers (was PoA Chapter 14 Summary)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 20562

> I just don't see Snape running to Dumbledore to constantly *rat*. 
> He does, though, express his opinions and concerns.  I think by 
> this time he has figured out Dumbledore isn't going to listen to
> anything 
> he has to say about Lupin. I also don't think he questioned Lupin 
> about it later.  Snape just decided to take care of the matter in
> his way in his own time.

I think that the most frustrating thing in the world to Snape is the
way that certain people can keep breaking rules that everyone is
supposed to follow and yet not only avoid punishment but somehow be
rewarded or praised for it.  People like James and Sirius when they
were all students together or Harry and Ron and Hermione in the
present day.  Drives him right up a wall.  Makes no sense to him at
all.  "Special circumstances" mean absolutely nothing to him; rules
are rules and that's that.

It's why he is so jubilant in CoS when H & R arrive in the car; he's
so sure that this time it's impossible for justice not to be done.  

All of which is a long prelude to my real points: to Snape, going to
Dumbledore would not be "ratting", it would be bringing a malefactor
to justice. For this reason he wouldn't think of dealing with
something himself because that's what the authorities are there for. 
(Any urge he might have to deal with things on his own probably did
not survive the Quirrell episode in SS/PS.)

That's why losing the Order of Merlin in PoS hurt so bad: after a
lifetime of watching charming rule-breakers avoid the consquences of
their actions, someone who abided by the strict letter of the rule
and who truly deserved a little recognition (ie, himself) was finally
going to be honoured.

Dumbledore must have had a heck of a summer calming him down in time
for the start of the GoF school year.

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